Monthly Archives: September 2013

Social mobility. It’s good, isn’t it? If you disagree, I would stop reading now otherwise you’ll get as riled as a unemployed Muslim asylum-seeker reading the Daily Mail. Which is to say very riled indeed. I would hope that the … Continue reading →

There is a long tradition in literature and music of the doomed romance. Take Abelard for instance. The David Beckham of the medieval monastic world. He had it all, fame, crowds of admirers, a body of published work. He fell … Continue reading →